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  1. Madmick

    Chess - Path towards World Chess Championship (Gukesh Dommaraju vs Ding Liren)

    It is impressive how quickly Gukesh vaulted past Pragg. And it's not like Arjun is that old. We could find ourselves watching a bunch of India vs. India championship showdowns in the future. That would be new. Nobody has done that since Russia dominated chess for nearly half a century.
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    Opinion What is behind the insulin shortage in the US?

    I did not. You're a careless reader.
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    Opinion What is behind the insulin shortage in the US?

    Yet again, Canada is an example of a country with a for-profit pharmaceutical sector. The University of Toronto also profited off the royalties (and future refined intellectual property) as part of its deal with Eli Lilly which was the first entity to mass produce it for distribution to the world.
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    Opinion What is behind the insulin shortage in the US?

    Japan has a for-profit model with its pharmaceutical companies. Great government healthcare spending isn't mutually exclusive to a for-profit model, not that healthcare spending necessarily correlates to broader or more affordable healthcare, nor does better healthcare entail a healthier...
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    News Matt Brown retires: "I'm out"

    Crazy to think a guy who fought Pete Spratt is retiring today. That's one tough sumbitch.
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    Opinion What is behind the insulin shortage in the US?

    That's not an answer. Just a bunch of excuses for why the for-profit model is vastly superior at helping people.
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    ***2024 NBA Thread - Let The Games Begin***

    Harden: 2nd Round Exits= 7 1st Round Exits = 5 And the only time in his career he made it to the NBA Finals was carried by prime Durant (#2 MVP Vote-getter, 1st Team All-NBA), Westbrook (2nd Team All-NBA), Ibaka (#2 DPOY Vote-getter, 1st Team All-Defense), Sefolosha (#17 All-Defensive Voting...
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    Best opening 3 songs on an album? or strongest 3 songs in a row on an album?

    Radiohead: OK Computer (1997)
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    Is Randy Johnson the greatest pitcher ever?

    As a starting pitcher, you mean, right? Because Mariano Rivera seemed like the most unhittable pitcher I ever watched play.
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    Opinion What is behind the insulin shortage in the US?

    List every major medical breakthrough and medication developed by a country that isn't driven by a free market economy, and pharmaceutical companies that operate with a profit margin. I'll hold my breath.
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    List of NBA champions by all stars

    As has already been pointed out in this thread, the counts here aren't tabulating the players on the roster who made the All-Star game in the same year they won the NBA championship, but those who had made the All-Star game at any point in their careers. It would have been far more telling to do...
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    Elections Boris Johnson Turned Away From Polling Station After Forgetting ID (His Own Policy)

    Give me a fucking break. The homeless people where I live walking around on the sidewalk are talking on cell phones. I have yet to encounter a single minimum wage worker who can't afford their own phone and cell service. Yet somehow this magically becomes an unbearable, impossible barrier when...
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    Elections Boris Johnson Turned Away From Polling Station After Forgetting ID (His Own Policy)

    Who cares? People needs IDs to drive on the road. Nobody seems to believe it's unreasonable to expect drivers to be able to produce them except the sovereign citizen idiots. Yet for some reason I'm supposed to sympathize with those who assert this is an unreasonable expectation at a voting...
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    Movies Which is the best Daniel Day-Lewis film?

    I haven't watched Bounty or My Beautiful Laundrette, so I can't vote in the poll. Can't say I'm too keen to get right on that, either.
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    Television Shogun

    Agreed, the second two thirds of the season wasn't nearly as strong as the first 2-3 episodes. It got lost in the dynastic machination crap the same way Game of Thrones did, and too enamored with the superhero-like cleverness of its Shogun. It didn't realize what made it so gripping, early on...
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    Marvel's new X-Men reboot will be "Female Centric"

    It's their hundreds of millions of dollars to piss down the sink again. Go crazy, Disney.
  17. Madmick

    What’s the scariest/most ominous piece of music of all time?

    It's pretty hard to top this.
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    PC Sherdog Gaming Laptop & Review Thread (OP Updated Apr-2019)

    If it holds up as long as you were expecting it to last it's a pretty freaking phenomenal deal in terms of components for the money, and the all-aluminum build is really nice. Looks like the biggest issue in reviews was battery life. https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/lenovo-slim-pro-9i-gen-8...
  19. Madmick

    Google, Microsoft, tech jobs, etc... are no longer "dream" jobs..

    Where in my post did you read any reference to liberals, democrats, or political party? My goodness, kid, you need to take a step back from it all. You are warped.
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    International Hamas launches surprise attack on Israel; Israel has declared a state of war. Vol. VII

    Agreed. This is a 100% surefire strategy to hand Trump the election.
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